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From: mac@idacrd.UUCP (Robert McGwier)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: married astronauts to fly together?
Message-ID: <877@idacrd.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 91 16:55:45 GMT
References: <1991Feb4.115208.11590@pbs.org>
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From article <1991Feb4.115208.11590@pbs.org>, by pstinson@pbs.org:
> In article <14243@ulysses.att.com>, smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin) writes:
>> Two astronauts assigned to fly on Endeavour in September 1992, Mark Lee
>> and Jan Davis, have just married.  NASA is trying to decide what, if
>> anything, to do about it...
> If they have dependents back on Earth, NASA may not want to risk having both
> parents lost on one mission.  It is not just NASA.  Ever since the three
> Sullivan brothers went down with the same ship in World War II, the Navy has
> been extremely reluctant to assign brothers to the same vessel.  I imagine any
> policy eventually formulated regarding spouses will be an extension of this
> practice.  No one wants one accident to wipe out a whole family. 




This is false.  There are several cases of two parents who were in the
active service, active reserves, and now inactive reserves being shipped
to the Saudi theatre.  I watched a fairly interesting example on `Larry
King Live' on CNN last week.

Bob

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